Man Acquitted In Prof`s Slaying

June 21, 1988

CHICAGO — A former Evergreen Park man was acquitted Monday by a Cook County Criminal Court jury of murdering a University of Illinois-Chicago professor in his Near North Side apartment in May, 1987. Michael C. O`Connor, 27, took the witness stand Monday to deny a confession to police and to implicate the son of a Chicago police officer in the killing of Martin Schulman, 62, a pharmacology professor since 1960 at the university. O`Connor`s attorney, Richard Boeke, said police moved too quickly to charge O`Connor in order to protect John Ryan, the officer`s son.